Tag Archives: YouTube

September 9th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Blinky Productions, Comic Books, Dan Poole, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, Public Screening, Star Wars, Superheroes,

Way back in the Dark Ages—OK, April—I hosted a panel of some of the brightest stars in the fan film universe at the New York Comic Con. We got nearly 300 people in audience for the event, and despite technical glitches, it went so well that I was inspired to bring this blog back from [...]

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August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, Publishing, Writing,

It’s every fan filmmaker’s dream these days—make a flick that’s got that extra spark, that certain something that makes it blow up, going from a little video shared with your friends, to the next multi-million-view hit on YouTube. How do you get there? Well, a lot of friends and some software to game the page [...]

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Son of Harry Potter: The Fan Film

July 28th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Harry Potter, History, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Writing,

Well, this is a new wrinkle. There’s fan films, and then there’s fan fiction (fanfic), and never the twain shall meet right? Usually, but not this time. Turns out there’s a new fan film being made, James Potter and the Hall of Elders’ Crossing, and it’s based on a Harry Potter fanfic novel. function change_color(input, [...]

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June 6th, 2008 | Posted in Fan Film, Filmmaking, Mainstream Media, News,

YouTube has debuted Video Annotations, which allows uploaders to add text right on top of their videos. The feature opens up some interesting possibilities for fan filmmakers, including the ability to create interactive flicks. Currently in beta, the new feature lets you add comment boxes, speech bubbles and even links to other movies. Viewers can [...]

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Gray Areas: The Cult of the Amateur

April 19th, 2007 | Posted in Analysis, Education, Fan Film, Gray Areas, History, Mainstream Media, News, Review, Superheroes,

Over the last few days, I’ve been reading an intriguing book, The Cult of the Amateur, by Andrew Keen (Currency/Doubleday); it doesn’t come out until June, but it’s bound to make a splash in certain circles when it does. The subtitle is “How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture,” and the basic gist is that [...]

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News: Going Blind…Festival…And No News

April 8th, 2007 | Posted in Batman, Fan Film, Housekeeping, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superheroes,

There’s a few news items today, so we’ll just do ‘em in one chunk: We start with something quite newsworthy…except that we’ve been asked not to name names while the folks involved figure out what to do next, so welcome to FCT‘s first blind item ever: What fan film got hit with a cease and [...]

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Analysis: Big Media Wants You

April 4th, 2007 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Mainstream Media, Son of Rambow, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superheroes,

There’s the old cliché that if you chain a million monkeys to a million typewriters, eventually one of them is going to accidentally write Macbeth. Regardless of what Shakespeare’s ghost and PETA might think of this concept, the general idea applies well to the modern media age—not for the cliché’s original meaning, which was a [...]

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March 7th, 2007 | Posted in Analysis, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Mainstream Media,

YouTube has been open for something like 15 months now, and although it’s created a seismic shift for the internet, it’s also done the same thing for fan films. Unlike a New Year’s diet, the changes have been quick and noticeable, and while some folks decry YouTube as bad for fan productions, we think it’s [...]

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Analysis: Fan Films Leading To Comic Crackdown?

February 28th, 2007 | Posted in Analysis, Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Mainstream Media, Publishing, Star Wars, Superheroes, Watchmen, Writing,

One of the more interesting panels this past weekend at the New York Comic Con was closed to the public. Friday’s “Comics Publishing: Review and Outlook” featured some truly heavy-hitters, including: Paul Levitz (President & Publisher, DC Comics), whose low-key demeanor belied the fact that he was surprisingly candid with numbers (for instance, the Watchmen [...]

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Gray Areas: Lucasfilm Backyard Film Contest

February 8th, 2007 | Posted in Contest, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Monster Movies, Public Screening, Star Trek, Star Wars, Uncategorized,

Wanna start an argument between fan filmmakers? Ask ‘em what constitutes a fan film. And if you want to see that argument escalate into a brawl (and really, who doesn’t?), inquire whether “fan films” made by professionals count–you know, flicks like the upcoming Star Trek: Of Gods And Men, featuring nearly every Trek actor that [...]

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